Cosmolosophy is what I hope will be a useful new framework for finding meaning and direction in a complicated environment of information, social expectations and economic realities.The intent is to create a new synthesis of science and faith; as well as to strive for a description of us and our place in the Cosmos that balances a questioning mind with the need for that which transcends the merely rational.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

The Metaphor Inherent in the Things We Abandon

One of the problems about a story like this, quite apart from how heart breaking it is, is that it inevitably takes attention away from the other aspects of life that we also abandon. Even as we consider the kind of cruelty it takes to forget about creatures so ready to give us unconditional love, even if we treat them badly, humans will be frozen out of our hearts as they lay strewn about streets all over the country; and well before any external cold has descended upon the land.

Even as glaciers melt, the oceans, and the animals trying to live there, become frozen out as well because it costs too much to fix what we have done to them. Billions of years of evolutionary miracles living all around us, in fact, going to our waste, our poison and our neglect and we turn away because of the cost.

And make no mistake, that cost goes well beyond the abstract counters we covet so much within our ever decreasing attention spans. The cost at the bottom line of taking full responsibility for our actions. The line at which you recognize that simply paying and forgetting just won't cut it anymore. Where you actually have to change the way you live, becoming intimately involved in the solution, making the sacrifices required to do so without complaint. Wouldn't it be something if we could return some form of that kind of unconditional love back to life in general? It's not impossible you know. Incredibly difficult, certainly, but not impossible.

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About Me

I am retired now, but I used to make my living as a Systems Analyst\Developer.

As my real passion has always been ideas, writing, reading, social change and music I am devoting myself to all of these. The primary focus, however is on social change.

It is my firm belief that Capitalism is obsolete. It has been rendered so because of electrified information systems. Not only do these make human skill as a commodity absurd, they also turn information into money, and money into information. At the very least, this reality makes representational Democracy virtually impossible because it can longer move freely. As a commodity it is necessarily subject to the net gain requirement in any exchange. As such information flow is seldom conducted for the benefit of the receiver.